Guard for journal-boxes.



UNiTnD Srarns Patented November 24, 1903.

WILLIAM F. BOSSERT, OF UTICA, NEW YORK.

GUARD FOR JOURNALBOXES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,896, dated November 24, 1903. Application filed January 12,1903. Serial No. 138,649. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM F. Bossnnr, residing at Utica, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Guards for Journal-Boxes, of which the following is a speciiication.

The invention forming the subject of this speciiication relates to gua-rds attached to journalboxes, and especially the journal boxes of railway-carriages, to prevent the diffusion of dust or of any material beyond the guard.

The guard is made in semicircular halves and may be applied 'to the journal-box and detached therefrom by means of clips or hangers; and it consists of two parallel pieces of felt orother suitable material adapted to embrace one-half the circumference of the journal and to be heldto its surface by springpressure, which also feeds the saine upward when worn off. The two pieces of felt are impelled by their springs independently of each other and together form a combined oil-and-dust screen, all of which I will now proceed to describe, and point out in the appended claims. y

In the drawings which form a part of and illustrate the specication, Figure 1 is a horizontal section through a journal-box, showing the journal in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a section on line 5c a: of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is aview of one side of the guard detached from the journal-box. Figs. l and 5 are respectively a top and a side view of a spring to impel or set out the oil-guard part of the device. Fig. 6 is asection on line y y of Fig. 3. Fig. 7 is a side view of a portion of the device detached.

In the drawings, A represents the common journal-box of a railway-carriage.

1 is the end wall yof the journal-box, and 2 is a partition through the box at a short distance from the wall 1 to provide a chamber in which is ordinarily arranged a dust-guard. This chamber is not necessary with my invention, however.' There are large circular orices 30 and 5 in the respective walls 1 and 2 of the journal-box, in the center of which rotates the journal B. (Shown in dotted lines and circles.)

The improved guard is represented by C, and consists of a metal plate 8 of general rectangular shape, except that the upper part is roughly indented with a semicircular outline, portions 18 18 18 of which are fingers bent over to form clips or hangers, and to each outer edge of the sheet 8 are soldered or suitably attached the tubes 19, in which are the rods 16, provided with the buttons 2O at their lower ends to prevent them from coming out of the tubes, while their upper ends are connected to the supporting extensions 15, which are attached rigidly to the sides and ends of the semicircular channel-piece 13, provided with stop ends 31, in the channel of which is located a strip 14 of felt or other suitable material. Springs 17 on the rods 16 between the extensions 15 and the tubes 19 tendto raise the channel-piece 13 above the plate 8 and its clips 18, all of which is designed to form a dustguard.

Upon the outer side of the plate 8 is secured a piece of leather or sheet-rubber 7 of the same general shape. of the plate 8 is a wide and narrow pocket formed by the continuation of the plate 8, as 9, to form its bottom and as 10 to form a portion of the front, while narrow strips 22 form two sides of the pocket, leaving an open space 12. Vithin the pocket, at its bottom inclosed portion 10, is a lat spring s, formed of several V-shaped extensions, and resting upon the spring in the pocket is a rectangularshaped piece of felting or other suitable material, whose upper side is indented with a semicircular curve. The spring s tends to force the piece 11 upward. This portion constitutes the oil-guard or protector.

The several parts being assembled as rep- Upon the inner-side resented, to place the device in position the parts 13 and 11 are pressed inward against the force of the springs 17 and s, respectively, and the device is inserted in the j ournal-box, under the journal B, and slid along toward the wall 2, so that the clips or hangers 18 go between the under side of the journaland the inner diameter ofthe orifice 5. Then the device is forced downward and the rubber piece 7, which 'is resilient, and the clips 18 embrace the wall 2, as shown in Fig. 1, and the springs 17 hold the channel-piece 13 and felt lining 14 against the journal and forms a guard against the passage of dust or any substance, while the spring s presses the felt piece 11 upward against the under side of the ICO journal and serves to prevent the passage of oil or any substance beyond it.

I contemplate employing a second guard,

like C, upon the upper part of the journal,A

(shown in dotted line at C2, Fig. 2;) but in practice one guard upon the lower portion, as described, has been found sufficient for all purposes.

It will be seen that both the felt pieces 14 and 11 are adapted to be moved up or down in a vertical direction and in no other, as in the case of the piece 14 the supporting-rods 16, being movable in the tubes 19, are of necessity movable in such direction, and in case of the piece 11 its edges are guided by the sides of its containing-pocket.

I claim as my invention- 1. A guard for journal-boxes consisting of a frame provided with clips, two parallel pieces of felt supported in the frame, a spring for each piece of felt adapted to extend its piece from the casing and to be compressed thereby. Y

2. A guard for journalboXes consisting of a frame provided with clips, a holder, springs supporting each end thereof,a pocket on the side of the frame, a spring in the pocket;

with two parallel pieces of felt one of which is carried by the holder, the other resting in the pocket upon the spring therein.

8. A guard for journal-boxes consisting of a frame providedl with clips, a holder, rods attached to the holderadapted to slide in said frame, springs upon the rods, a pocket on the side of the frame, a spring in the pocket, two parallel pieces of felt, one ofwhich is carried by the holder, the other resting in the pocket upon the spring therein.

4. A guard for journal-boxes consisting of a frame provided with clips, a semicircular holder, springs supporting each end thereof, a pocket on the side of the frame, a spring in the bottom of the pocket, two parallel pieces of material, felt, movable in vertical direction only, one of which is carried by the holder, and the other in said pocket upon said spring.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses/this 8th day of January, 1903.

WILLIAM F. BOSSERT. 

